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The key. For a significant man, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

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Untranslatable. It is neither the best nor the worst of a book that is untranslatable.

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The paradoxes of an author. The so-called paradoxes of an author, which a reader objects to, are often not at all in the author's book but rather in the reader's head.

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Wit. The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

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The antithesis. The antithesis is the narrow gate through which error prefers to worm its way to truth.